1993 Summary: National Hospital Discharge Survey Advance Data 264. An estimated 30.8 million inpatients, excluding newborn infants, were discharged from short-stay non-Federal hospitals in the United States in 1993. These patients used 184.6 million days of inpatient hospital care. The discharge rate was 120.1 discharges per 1,000 civilian population and the average length of stay was 6.0 days. The statistics presented in this report are based on data collected by the National Hospital Discharge Survey, a continuous survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics since 1965. Data Highlights: One or more surgical or nonsurgical procedures was performed for an estimated 20.0 million of the 30.8 million inpatients discharged from short-stay non-Federal hospitals during 1993. Diseases of the circulatory system ranked first in 1993 as the principal first-listed diagnoses for patients discharged from short-stay non-Federal hospitals. The average length of stay was 6.5 days for males and 5.6 days for females during 1993. The average length of stay for females who were hospitalized for deliveries (including caesareans) was 2.4 days. The average length of stay by geographic regions were 5.1 days in the West, 5.7 days in the South, 6.1 days in the Midwest, and 7.0 days in the Northeast.
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